If you want to build startups,
Capital Thought should be your next home.
Capital Thought is a combination startup incubator and consulting company based in downtown Austin, TX. We do everything from business strategy to marketing and product design to hard-core software development.
At Capital Thought you’ll work on several startups using the latest web technology and startup methodologies. Learn business, design, and development skills from smart folks who have done this before (and teach us something too). Join us and grow alongside us!
We’re proud to call Austin TX our home, where the food is awesome, the winters are mild, and the creative culture creates fun and business opportunities. We’re rooted in the Austin community and our clients are nearby. We have a close-knit team and our clients are just as close! When the weather is nice (a.k.a. most of the time), there are bikes parked all over the office. You drive? We’ve got 24/7 garage parking too.
If this sounds familiar, we might be right for each other:
- You want to build startups but also want the stability and perks of a mature company.
- You want to build your own startup someday — or at least be employee #1 — but you’d like to be a part of ten other startups first to learn the ropes.
- You love proving that “the impossible” can be done in ten hours.
- You enjoy working on teams and can communicate well but…
- …sometimes you need to bust out some code without discussion.
- You have impeccable attention to detail. “Off by one” bugs keep you up at night.
- You like talking to customers and building for them, not hiding behind a Project Manager.
- You like figuring out how things should work, not blindly building to “The Spec.”
- You’re so good, you make your peers look bad.
Perks of the Palace
Attracting and retaining awesome people isn’t just about salary. It’s about who you work with, having the time to stretch your mind and try new things, interact with people outside the company, and the flexibility to work with your own style.
- 10% time (not quite Google’s 20% time, but we’re getting there!)
- Annual profit sharing
- Stake in all equity projects
- Annual equipment & conference allowance
- Medical & dental plan
- Flexible vacation time
- Modern downtown office with a view, gym, rooftop pool, and free 24-hour parking
- Work from home Wednesdays and “Beer O’Clock” Fridays
Some of our projects
- WPEngine: (incubated) Fast, scalable, and secure WordPress hosting. Got profitable in 7 months and growing strong.
- Mosso: Rackspace’s Cloud computing platform
- BazaarVoice: We helped them hire and build their flagship product: Ratings and Reviews
- OtherInbox: We brought them to launch; now they’ve raised millions of dollars and have a ludicrous quantity of users!
Open Position: Junior Front-End Developer
Just getting into Rails? Maybe you did a project on the side because your boss won’t let you bring “that Rails toy” into the office? C’mon over, we got your back.
Here’s some of the things we like to use, what’s your experience with them?
- Ruby, Rails, and Sinatra
- PHP, WordPress, and CodeIgniter
- Redis and Mongo
- HTML5 and CSS3
- HAML and SASS
- RSpec and Cucumber
- Heroku and AWS
- Hudson and Integrity
- iOS and Android
- Git, GitHub, and Pivotal Tracker
Interested?
- Email us at jobs@capitalthought.com
- Say: That you saw this web page
- Include: The role you want.
- Include: Why you’re the perfect person for the job, a better fit than those other folks also sending us email.